Sorry, wrong company name--I was thinking of another one --a truly
competent one, Outsell, that has undoubtedly nothing to do with this
nonsensical method of protection.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:20 PM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Upsell is the name of the leading market research
company in
publishing--probably they are the ones who designed it. I'm suprised,
for they are generally known as competent.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:17 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/12/22 Milos Rancic
<millosh(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> The following Firefox bookmarklet may be
useful:
> javascript:(function(){Darwin.Upsell.deactivate();})()
Thanks! It works well :)
They called the function "upsell"? *facepalm* Wikipedia doesn't need
to do anything to compete with Britannica, just leave them to collapse
under the weight of their own ineptitude.
We should probably run a large public "Save Britannica!" campaign -
how to save a great historical encyclopedia, second only to the OED as
one of the great works of Anglophone non-fiction, from its own
business stupidity. I'm halfway serious. What could we do with a "Save
Britannica" campaign?
(There are many ways in which it sucks, but it still manages
*consistent* quality better than en:wp. Better writing, too. A lot of
us wouldn't be doing this Wikipedia thing if we weren't encyclopedia
fans in the first place, and that includes Britannica.)
- d.
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